ROCm 6.3.1 release notes

ROCm 6.3.1 release notes#

2024-12-20

14 min read time

Applies to Linux and Windows

The release notes provide a summary of notable changes since the previous ROCm release.

Note

If you’re using Radeon™ PRO or Radeon GPUs in a workstation setting with a display connected, continue to use ROCm 6.2.3. See the Use ROCm on Radeon GPUs documentation to verify compatibility and system requirements.

Release highlights#

The following are notable new features and improvements in ROCm 6.3.1. For changes to individual components, see Detailed component changes.

Per queue resiliency for Instinct MI300 accelerators#

The AMDGPU driver now includes enhanced resiliency for misbehaving applications on AMD Instinct MI300 accelerators. This helps isolate the impact of misbehaving applications, ensuring other workloads running on the same accelerator are unaffected.

ROCm Runfile Installer#

ROCm 6.3.1 introduces the ROCm Runfile Installer, with initial support for Ubuntu 22.04. The ROCm Runfile Installer facilitates ROCm installation without using a native Linux package management system, with or without network or internet access. For more information, see the ROCm Runfile Installer documentation.

ROCm documentation updates#

ROCm documentation continues to be updated to provide clearer and more comprehensive guidance for a wider variety of user needs and use cases.

  • Added documentation on training a model with ROCm Megatron-LM. AMD offers a Docker image for MI300X accelerators containing essential components to get started, including ROCm libraries, PyTorch, and Megatron-LM utilities. See Training a model using ROCm Megatron-LM to get started.

    The new ROCm Megatron-LM training Docker accompanies the ROCm vLLM inference Docker as a set of ready-to-use containerized solutions to get started with using ROCm for AI.

  • Updated the Instinct MI300X workload tuning guide with more current optimization strategies. The updated sections include guidance on vLLM optimization, PyTorch TunableOp, and hipBLASLt tuning.

  • HIP graph-safe libraries operate safely in HIP execution graphs. HIP graphs are an alternative way of executing tasks on a GPU that can provide performance benefits over launching kernels using the standard method via streams. A topic that shows whether a ROCm library is graph-safe has been added.

  • The Device memory topic in the HIP memory management section has been updated.

  • The HIP documentation has expanded with new resources for developers:

Operating system and hardware support changes#

ROCm 6.3.1 adds support for Debian 12 (kernel: 6.1). Debian is supported only on AMD Instinct accelerators. See the installation instructions at Debian native installation.

ROCm 6.3.1 enables support for AMD Instinct MI325X accelerator. For more information, see AMD Instinct™ MI325X Accelerators.

See the Compatibility matrix for more information about operating system and hardware compatibility.

ROCm components#

The following table lists the versions of ROCm components for ROCm 6.3.1, including any version changes from 6.3.0 to 6.3.1. Click the component’s updated version to go to a list of its changes. Click to go to the component’s source code on GitHub.

Category Group Name Version
Libraries Machine learning and computer vision Composable Kernel 1.1.0
MIGraphX 2.11.0
MIOpen 3.3.0
MIVisionX 3.1.0 ⇒ 3.1.0
rocAL 2.1.0
rocDecode 0.8.0
rocJPEG 0.6.0
rocPyDecode 0.2.0
RPP 1.9.1
Communication RCCL 2.21.5 ⇒ 2.21.5
Math hipBLAS 2.3.0
hipBLASLt 0.10.0
hipFFT 1.0.17
hipfort 0.5.0
hipRAND 2.11.1
hipSOLVER 2.3.0
hipSPARSE 3.1.2
hipSPARSELt 0.2.2
rocALUTION 3.2.1
rocBLAS 4.3.0
rocFFT 1.0.31
rocRAND 3.2.0
rocSOLVER 3.27.0
rocSPARSE 3.3.0
rocWMMA 1.6.0
Tensile 4.42.0
Primitives hipCUB 3.3.0
hipTensor 1.4.0
rocPRIM 3.3.0
rocThrust 3.3.0
Tools System management AMD SMI 24.7.1 ⇒ 24.7.1
ROCm Data Center Tool 0.3.0
rocminfo 1.0.0
ROCm SMI 7.4.0
ROCmValidationSuite 1.1.0
Performance ROCm Bandwidth Test 1.4.0
ROCm Compute Profiler 3.0.0 ⇒ 3.0.0
ROCm Systems Profiler 0.1.0 ⇒ 0.1.0
ROCProfiler 2.0.0
ROCprofiler-SDK 0.5.0
ROCTracer 4.1.0
Development HIPIFY 18.0.0 ⇒ 18.0.0
ROCdbgapi 0.77.0
ROCm CMake 0.14.0
ROCm Debugger (ROCgdb) 15.2
ROCr Debug Agent 2.0.3
Compilers HIPCC 1.1.1
llvm-project 18.0.0
Runtimes HIP 6.3.0 ⇒ 6.3.1
ROCr Runtime 1.14.0

Detailed component changes#

The following sections describe key changes to ROCm components.

AMD SMI (24.7.1)#

Changed#

  • amd-smi monitor displays VCLOCK and DCLOCK instead of ENC_CLOCK and DEC_CLOCK.

Resolved issues#

  • Fixed amd-smi monitor’s reporting of encode and decode information. VCLOCK and DCLOCK are now associated with both ENC_UTIL and DEC_UTIL.

Note

See the full AMD SMI changelog for more details and examples.

HIP (6.3.1)#

Added#

  • An activeQueues set that tracks only the queues that have a command submitted to them, which allows fast iteration in waitActiveStreams.

Resolved issues#

  • A deadlock in a specific customer application by preventing hipLaunchKernel latency degradation with number of idle streams.

HIPIFY (18.0.0)#

Added#

  • Support for:

    • NVIDIA CUDA 12.6.2

    • cuDNN 9.5.1

    • LLVM 19.1.3

    • Full hipBLAS 64-bit APIs

    • Full rocBLAS 64-bit APIs

Resolved issues#

  • Added missing support for device intrinsics and built-ins: __all_sync, __any_sync, __ballot_sync, __activemask, __match_any_sync, __match_all_sync, __shfl_sync, __shfl_up_sync, __shfl_down_sync, and __shfl_xor_sync.

MIVisionX (3.1.0)#

Changed#

  • AMD Clang is now the default CXX and C compiler.

  • The dependency on rocDecode has been removed and automatic rocDecode installation is now disabled in the setup script.

Resolved issues#

  • Canny failure on Instinct MI300 has been fixed.

  • Ubuntu 24.04 CTest failures have been fixed.

Known issues#

  • CentOS, Red Hat, and SLES requires the manual installation of OpenCV and FFMPEG.

  • Hardware decode requires that ROCm is installed with --usecase=graphics.

Upcoming changes#

  • Optimized audio augmentations support for VX_RPP.

RCCL (2.21.5)#

Changed#

  • Enhanced the user documentation.

Resolved Issues#

  • Corrected some user help strings in install.sh.

ROCm Compute Profiler (3.0.0)#

Resolved issues#

ROCm Systems Profiler (0.1.0)#

Added#

  • Improvements to support OMPT target offload.

Resolved issues#

  • Fixed an issue with generated Perfetto files. See issue #3767 for more information.

  • Fixed an issue with merging multiple .proto files.

  • Fixed an issue causing GPU resource data to be missing from traces of Instinct MI300A systems.

  • Fixed a minor issue for users upgrading to ROCm 6.3 from 6.2 post-rename from omnitrace. See ROCm Compute Profiler and ROCm Systems Profiler post-upgrade issues.

ROCm known issues#

ROCm known issues are noted on GitHub. For known issues related to individual components, review the Detailed component changes.

PCI Express Qualification Tool failure on Debian 12#

The PCI Express Qualification Tool (PEQT) module present in the ROCm Validation Suite (RVS) might fail due to the segmentation issue in Debian 12 (bookworm). This will result in failure to determine the characteristics of the PCIe interconnect between the host platform and the GPU like support for Gen 3 atomic completers, DMA transfer statistics, link speed, and link width. The standard PCIe command lspci can be used as an alternative to view the characteristics of the PCIe bus interconnect with the GPU. This issue is under investigation and will be addressed in a future release. See GitHub issue #4175.

ROCm resolved issues#

The following are previously known issues resolved in this release. For resolved issues related to individual components, review the Detailed component changes.

Instinct MI300 series: backward weights convolution performance issue#

Fixed a performance issue affecting certain tensor shapes during backward weights convolution when using FP16 or FP32 data types on Instinct MI300 series accelerators. See GitHub issue #4080.

ROCm Compute Profiler and ROCm Systems Profiler post-upgrade issues#

Packaging metadata for ROCm Compute Profiler (rocprofiler-compute) and ROCm Systems Profiler (rocprofiler-systems) has been updated to handle the renaming from Omniperf and Omnitrace, respectively. This fixes minor issues when upgrading from ROCm 6.2 to 6.3. For more information, see the GitHub issues #4082 and #4083.

Stale file due to OpenCL ICD loader deprecation#

When upgrading from ROCm 6.2.x to ROCm 6.3.0, the issue of removal of the rocm-icd-loader package leaving a stale file in the old rocm-6.2.x directory has been resolved. The stale files left during the upgrade from ROCm 6.2.x to ROCm 6.3.0 will be removed when upgrading to ROCm 6.3.1. For more information, see GitHub issue #4084.

ROCm upcoming changes#

The following changes to the ROCm software stack are anticipated for future releases.

AMDGPU wavefront size compiler macro deprecation#

The __AMDGCN_WAVEFRONT_SIZE__ macro will be deprecated in an upcoming release. It is recommended to remove any use of this macro. For more information, see AMDGPU support.

HIPCC Perl scripts deprecation#

The HIPCC Perl scripts (hipcc.pl and hipconfig.pl) will be removed in an upcoming release.